Art 2 Heart
Art 2 Heart Podcast is here to help you find your voice. We explore how leaning into vulnerability and expression can be the missing key to transform your life and everything in it. My hope is that every listener will be moved to find their own home in art after witnessing the impact its had on the life and journey of the artists we interview.
Episodes
25 episodes
24. Grief, God, and The Disguises We Wear—with Mom
This episode was originally published in a new podcast but decided to bring it back for Art 2 Heart Season 2. What happens when the theology you were raised inside begins to soften, and the person who taught it to you is willing ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:14:32
23. What We Fear More Than Death
What We Fear More Than Death This podcast was originally uploaded under a new podcast, but I ultimately decided to bring it back for Art 2 Heart Season 2. Most of us aren’t afraid of dying. We’re afraid of what de...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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12:03
22. Darkness Retreat and Surrender with Sarah McCash
Darkness, Surrender, and the Poet Within with Sarah McCashThis episode was originally published under a new podcast, but I ultimately decided to bring it back to Art 2 Heart for season 2. In this episode, David Morin a...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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51:53
21. About A Year to Live: A 12-Month Experiment to Unlock Clarity, Purpose, and Urgency
Episode Summary:Join David Morin--former Peace Corps volunteer and sales professional turned death doula, poet, and prison rehabilitation facilitator--as he shares his transformative journey into guiding individuals toward clarity...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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46:51
20. From Funemployment to Fulfillment: Life Update
In this episode of the Art2Heart podcast, I return after a year-long hiatus to share updates, reflections on the first season, and exciting new plans. I discuss overcoming initial insecurities about taking center stage and learning the importan...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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26:26
A2H #19 | From Grief to Abundance: Chris Siders' Journey through Loss and Transformation
In this deeply moving episode, we hear from Chris Siders, an LA-based poet, music producer, and activist. Chris shares his experience about dealing with loss, grief, struggles with his health, and how these experiences have been the fuel to pro...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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2:16:34
A2H #18 | The Only in the Room with Anika Aftab
Have you ever felt like you were an only in the room? Like no matter how many people you’re surrounded by, you feel like you can’t quite relate to anyone? It’s hard to put a specific word to what this feels like. Our guest today, A...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:20:20
A2H #17 | Following Butterflies and Chasing Your Dreams with Rachel Livinal
Rachel Livinal is a recent graduate at Cal State Long Beach with a BA in Journalism. She just started her position as a higher education radio reporter for KVPR (Valley Public Radio) at the end of this month.Rachel has also been a poet s...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:11:40
A2H #16 | Finding Your Roots with Holly Pelletiere
Welcome to the Art 2 Heart podcast. My name is David Morin. I'm a former corporate sales guy turned poet. And this is where we explore how finding your voice can help your path and your purpose find you. Whether you're currently in a career ...
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1:21:13
A2H #15 | Meeting Your Magic with Adam Avenus
Have you ever read a book that changed your life? A book that ties together all of the threads that you’ve been chasing, and suddenly your life feels like there’s some hope?What if you had a chance to meet the author of that book?&n...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:20:00
A2H #14 | Writing Our Lessons with Amber Jeanseau
Has there ever been a time in your life where you got so tired of ruminating on the same thing? Maybe there was a nagging idea or thought in the back of your mind that just never quite allowed you to experience more gratidude inste...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:25:48
A2H #13 | Immigrants, Grief, and Bukowski with Christian Lozada
Accomplishment and emptiness. Gratitude and sadness. Love and grief. Filipino and White.Two things can be true at the same time.Today’s guest is an insanely talented poet and educator who is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:11:47
A2H #12 | Finding Your Authentic Way of Learning with Tanin Kayvan
Have you ever been afraid of going out and traveling around the world? Does leaving the comfort, safety, and the familiarity of home cause you anxiety to travel? Do you believe widespread media when it tells you that t...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:13:01
A2H #11 | The Other Side of Disability with Elisa Ramos
Imagine you’re a 12 year old living your best life. You’re in cheerleading, you’re super social and you love making friends, but suddenly something feels off. You begin feeling weaker and you literally lose the ability to smile. Yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:09:06
A2H #10 | Sexually Abused Since 5 to NASA Engineer at 18 with Eliszabeth Van
Today’s guest is a freaking rockstar. Eliszabeth Van was born in Vietnam and moved to America at the age of 3, where she would grow up to survive an abusive childhood, be unhoused twice, and witness her father be incarcerated. During middle sch...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:14:01
A2H #9 | Peace Corps, Scuba Diving, & Living Outside Your Comfort Zone with Kayla Noble
Peace Corps. SCUBA Diving. Long distance relationship during COVID.What do these three things have in common?They’re all really damn hard.But doing hard things is nothing new to today’s guest, Kayla Noble, who has always ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:05:12
A2H #8 | Embracing the In-Between with Julianne Kanzaki
You know that feeling when you have a job that you’re great at?One where you’ve been training and failing and investing years of time and energy and lessons into building a career for the rest of your life?But then one day you rea...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:10:46
A2H #7 | What Being A Highly Sensitive Person is Like
Have you ever heard of a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? There are many of us out there, but often we don’t know the term exists, or how to conceptualize our day-to-day experiences. HSP’s are often deemed as “too sensitive.”W...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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11:12
A2H #6 | How a Storyteller Finds Hope After Miscarriages with Paige Pelonis
Imagine you find the perfect partner.You fall in love, build a life together, get married and then make plans to start a family. Sounds pretty ideal, right?Except for the part where covid shuts down the world 48 hours afte...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:23:23
A2H #5 | Practicing the Small Deaths with Lolo Wink
Have you ever had a relationship where part of the time, everything was perfect and it was everything you ever wanted? But then there are other times when that same person completely disregards you, pretends you don’t have a connection, spea...
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1:13:39
A2H #4 | Mistaking a Stop For The Final Destination
Have you ever had too many expectations for a trip or an event? Were those expectations realistic? Did you realize it in the moment that you set yourself up for failure? In today's episode, I talk about a recent traveling experience that I expe...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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10:08
A2H #3 | Grief Post Police with Ghada Morad
Grieving is something we’re all familiar with, whether it’s a premature death or losing someone we love from natural causes. But how does the grieving process change when the death could have been avoidable, or comes at the hands of those wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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56:02
A2H #2 | Finding Self-Love in the Small Things with Nobody Flowers
Are there parts of yourself that you dislike so much that it prevents you from having a positive relationship with yourself? Is self-care something that you have distanced yourself from because you thought it wasn’t for you? In this epi...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:44:59
A2H #1 | We Don't Own Our Trauma with Soul on Fire
When most people think about the word trauma, it is usually heavy. Trauma is often viewed as the clouds that follow us and the storms that we assume must become a part of our life forever. In this debut episode of Art 2 He...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:03:19